Solid Hino 3 is a very bold, very wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, stickers, album art, playful, grungy, comic, handmade, loud, expressive display, handmade feel, graphic impact, distressed texture, rough edges, chunky, blobby, irregular, inked.
A heavy, rounded display face with soft, blobby silhouettes and intentionally uneven contours. Strokes are thick and compact, with subtly wobbly edges that suggest a cutout or brush/marker origin rather than precise geometry. Counters are often reduced or partially collapsed, creating dense, solid-looking letterforms that read as bold shapes more than open constructions. Spacing and widths feel uneven by design, giving the alphabet a bouncy rhythm and an organically imperfect texture across lines of text.
Best suited to short, bold messaging where the letterforms can act as graphic shapes—posters, headlines, packaging callouts, stickers, and expressive branding accents. It works particularly well when you want an informal, comic-leaning voice or a tactile, hand-cut look in large sizes.
The overall tone is playful and mischievous, with a scrappy, DIY roughness that feels informal and energetic. Its chunky, imperfect forms lean toward cartoon and street-poster attitudes, prioritizing character and impact over refinement.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum visual impact through chunky massing and irregular, hand-made contours, while embracing collapsed openings for a solid, stamp-like presence. It favors personality and texture over conventional readability, aiming for an expressive, novelty display effect.
The texture is consistent across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals, with rounded terminals and occasional notches that add a distressed, handmade flavor. The dense interiors and small openings can reduce clarity at smaller sizes, but amplify the silhouette strength at display sizes.